He’s beauty, he’s grace, he’s ... Miss Congeniality? That’s how the New Yorker portrayed Donald Trump on its upcoming magazine cover, complete with the bouquet of roses, swimsuit and royal crown.

“Watching the debate, the artist Barry Blitt recognized a significant moment in the presidential campaign,” Françoise Mouly wrote in the preview of the cover. Of all Trump’s controversial beliefs, Blitt said, his misogyny "might just be his Achilles’ heel."

Trump’s feud with former Miss Universe Alicia Machado won the illustration spot after he continued his criticism of her following Monday’s presidential debate, when Hillary Clinton mentioned his attacks against her.

Sep. 29, 2016, 4:17 a.m.

David Duke, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, at home in Louisiana. (Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times)

David Duke worked the Louisiana gun show like a preacher pursuing souls, cornering potential voters as they picked over firearms and ammo.

The robes are gone and the rhetoric is softer than during his grand wizard days. But Duke has not shed his relentless proselytizing for the white race, even though voters have repeatedly rejected the former Ku Klux Klan leader’s attempts to regain public office.

Duke is undeterred. As he sees it, this is the moment. After last running for election in 1999, he’s back with a long-shot bid for Louisiana’s open U.S. Senate seat.

Sep. 29, 2016, 4:16 a.m.

Donald Trump poses next to the 11th hole at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes in 2005. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Donald Trump wanted only the pretty ones, his employees said.

After the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes opened for play in 2005, its world-famous owner didn’t stop by more than a few times a year to visit the course hugging the coast of the Pacific.

When Trump did visit, the club’s managers went on alert. They scheduled the young, thin, pretty women on staff to work the clubhouse restaurant — because when Trump saw less-attractive women working at his club, according to court records, he wanted them fired.